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John Scott

Blues Lace For Sister Sarah

1990

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John Scott

Blues Lace For Sister Sarah

1990

Physical Qualities Painted steel, 98 × 72 × 14 1/2 in. (248.9 × 182.9 × 36.8 cm.)
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of the Joshua Johnson Council, and Anna Elizabeth Fehl Acquisitions Endowment
Object Number 2018.6
John Scott dedicated this sculpture to jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, who had recently died. Its color harmonies, gracefully balanced shapes, and rhythmic motion recall the dazzling and supple ways in which Vaughan used her voice, and give this memorial a feeling of life. For Scott, color is as important to sculpture as its underlying welded steel structure. He invited viewers to imagine his work as a dancer he had wrapped in color as if “in a beautiful piece of cloth that expands and enhances the movement … exaggerates ... clarifies the movement.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2018; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
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John Scott

1939–2006

born New Orleans, LA 1940; died Houston, TX 2007
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